Changes of the 6.22 version- Updated plugin code to match version 5 and 6, for better support of external plugins

Changes of the 6.21 version- Added support for standard bitmap's output settings (cropping, etc) Automatic baking is permormed when a standard Bitmap is used as 'Standard texture' in Octane materials. (This can be disabled in a new setting in material tab, "Always Bake Standard Bitmap") This allows support of all Bitmap settings, like Cropping / placement.

Changes of the 6.11 version- Added Reset Default settings in Global settings- Fixed update of 'Enable displacement' changes- Added support of texture compression for Image Tile texture.- Fixed viewport update on some object properties change- Fixed crash when using XRef material in Mix Texture- Fixed Use Window resolution not having priority over Use production resolution.- Added support of motion blur for Forest Pack

Changes of the 6.10 version- Updated to Octane render 4.00 - Fixed issues with Tile grid (undo Clear)- Fixed Persistancy issues for orbx Export- Added Persistancy for static geometry (nodes not set as Movable proxy)- Added Film region button in viewport window.- Renamed viewport button 'Lock resolution' as 'Use window resolution' (matching Render View Settings option in Render setup)- Fixed regions rectangle for 'Use window resolution' mode.- Added 'Multiple Render Passes' mode for Viewport, to switch render pass without restarting render.- Added a Quick mode in Octane Viewport, for faster interactive response with large number of Movable proxy. This may not support all types of changes at the moment, and you may need to press the Update geometry button in some cases.- Fixed render setting dialog issues when liveDB path is invalid.- Improved performance for Octane proxy file loading, and for some scene parsing cases.

Changes of the 6.02 version- Improved Material editor performance: added cache and down-scaling of Material preview images : see new tab 'Material' in user settings- Reduced minimal refresh time in viewport settings to 0 ms : (default is 30, minimum was 10 : please use 0 for fastest interactive updates)- Added option to set this refresh time to 0 automatically when loading previous scenes (enabled by default, see option 'Optimize Refresh time for old scenes' of 'Viewport' tab in user settings)- Fixed Material editor UI being refreshed continuously in some cases.

Changes of the 4.25 version- Fixed crash with z-depth and locked resolution (render buffer width issue)- Added access to Octane Viewport Pause Rendering action. Now it can be mapped to any keyboard shortcut (Customize/Customize User interface/Keyboard/Group:Octane)

Changes of the 4.24 version- Updated Octane Renderer from 3.03.4 to 3.04.3- Replaced render layer 'visibility only' to visibility mode- Fixed crash if "Volume step length" of volume texture is too small- Added scene evaluation status display in Octane viewport title bar and option to disable it in Tools tab- Added missing texture types ("Cosine mix texture","Sine wave texture", "Triangle wave", "Saw wave", "Clamp" ), "W coordinates"- Added support for W control for Ornatrix HairNote on new features from 4.24:-The newly supported textures works same as in standalone : add at least a UV scaling map to adjust the effect. Note that the render in max viewport do not match those settings yet.. The option in the Tools tab "Enable 3dsMax Viewport UV Correction" might help.-The newly supported W control for Hair also works same as in standalone, eg: adding a 'W Coordinates' texture as input to a 'Gradient Texture' used for hair material will let you control the variation along the length of hairs. This 'W Coordinates' has no parameters. You can use the option 'Use custom W for Hair' in Tools tab to use Ws generated by the hair plugin.

Changes of the 4.20 version- Fixed conversion of gradient texture - Fixed conversion of main Camera Aperture, Focal depth, Dithering, Lens Shift, Min disp. samples- Fixed proxy flag not recognized (now both 'octane_movable_proy' and 'octane_movable_proxy' are read, same for 'Octane_layer_ID' and 'octane_layer_ID')- Fixed conversion failing to be activated (still grey materials in 4.19, where was working in 4.18..)

Changes of the 4.19 version- Loading of 2.23.2 - 1.9 and older scenes with material conversion fully supported.- Added conversion dialog in 'Tools' tab. See tooltips for more details.

Changes of the 4.18 version- Loading of 2.23.2 - 1.9 and older scenes with material conversion support added. This should remove the need to use the external material converter ! (This is a Test version! : Known issues: gamma and ToneMaping are incorrect, memory usage will increase -> don't overwrite you old scenes yet!)- Fixed crash when using Reaction Manager with octane materials.

Changes of the 4.16 version- New 3.03.3 rendering core. Volumes export must work stable now, plus there are some other fixes in this new rendering core version...- Added new "visible..." attributes for visible environment mode of daylight object.

Changes of the 4.15 version- Implemented an export of volume objects. Known issue: currently export process might crash on some specific volume shapes. This is Octane core issue, must be fixed with next SDK version...- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.14 version- Improved render-elements windows positioning when exporting from interactive session.- Fixed fluctuating bug: camera exposure got changed in some special cases after opening the saved scene (e.g. if FStop was not 2.8).- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.12 version- Unlocked the plugin's feature I've implemented a long time ago, responsible for loading the vertex velocities channel data into Octane rendering core if a velocity channel is present in an object of interest and if this channel is filled with a correct data by this object. This will not work for any 3ds Max (or thirdparty plugins) objects that do not have velocity channel exposed or fill it with faulty data (I've not seen the ones that do it correctly so far, perhaps you will find some). You can now find "Velocity channel ID" field in "Octane properties" of objects. Loading of velocity channel data into the Octane rendering core is disabled if this field has value less than "2" ('cause channel "0" is always "vertex colors" and channel "1" is a first UV channel).- Fixed a bug: Octane OpenVDB object crashed if a chosen VDB file path did not exist.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.11 version- Implemented the width/height settings for textures' viewport preview buffer.- Now when "Render Map" is used for Octane textures the result has the desired resolution chosen in the "Render Map" dialog.- Textures preview is now refreshed in 3ds Max viewport after changes are made.- Implemented a translation of "crop/placement" parameters for native bitmap textures in materials converter.- Implemented a translation of image sequence parameters for native bitmap textures in materials converter.- Fixed region rendering bug in final render mode.- Fixed the fluctuating bug: sometimes the interactive rendering got endlessly refreshed if turbosmooth modifier had been applied.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.9 version- New 3.03.2 rendering core.- Implemented the targeted/untargeted modes for Octane camera (e.g. usable for perspective match tool).- Now you can set the quality for materials/textures previews (new "Mat. preview spp" field in Octane render settings).- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.8 version- New 3.03.1 rendering core.- Far clip is now supported by camera.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.7 version- Implemented the workaround to make the "Place highlight" functionality work. Use the new "Flip" attribute in Octane light object. It is a good practice to have this checkbox enabled in any new Octane light you create. It only needs to be disabled by default to not get all the lights flipped in your old scenes.- Fixed a bug: artifacts sometimes when 3ds Max native textures were used as Octane image textures input.

Changes of the 4.6 version- Improved the new "Save image" functionality of Octane interactive viewport. Now the render elements are given names and saved automatically.- Improved the IES distribution visualization feature: now some melformed IES files are understood by the plugin.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.5 version- Implemented a direct saving of current content of Octane viewport into image. See a new "Save image" button in a toolbar.- Fixed one more issue of distribution visualization of some specific IES files for some specific locales.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.4 version- PhoenixFD simulator object without OctaneVolume modifier applied is now considered a mesh by Octane. This is usable if you tend to enable "Show mesh" in it and render it as a mesh, not as a volume.- Fixed IES distribution visualisation bug appeared for some specific locales.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.3 version- Implemented new kind of Environment - "Visible environment". The existing Octane DayLight object ideology is changed. Now you can use up to two of those objects in a scene - one for main environment and one for visible environment (the new "Kind" attribute). And now you can set either of those to either "Daylight" or "Texture" environment type (the new "Type" attribute). In this case, if the main environment node is set to "Texture" type - it will replace the Octane environment map set in 3ds Max standard settings (if any).- Added error logging to IES visualisation functionality. If you have issues with displaying IES distribution in 3ds Max viewport - attach please the Octane error log to the bugreport.- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.1 version- Implemented the PhoenixFD simulator support. You need to apply the new "OctaneVolume" modifier on top of simulator object to have access to additional Octane-specific settings. Mapping of PhoenixFD channels to Octane: temperature -> emission, smoke -> apsorption -> scatter, and velocity -> velocity.- Implemented a feeding of Octane image textures by non-Octane textures input. Now not only BitmapTex can be connected to "bitmap" attribute of Octane image textures. In this case the new "Bake input scale" and "Bake input resolution" attributes of Octane image texture must be tuned accordingly. But I still advise you to not abuse this approach too much, and still use the old efficient way: manually baking the texture to the file and use this file in created Octane image node. Because in the latter case you will do this manual baking only once - when you are creating the texture. But when you use this "on the fly" texture baking approach - the plugin will render (using standard 3ds Max CPU-calculated nodes) and bake every such texture every time during scene translation. So, if you have quite a few of such textures with high baking-resolution set - it will significantly increase the scene translation time. My measures for just one 3ds Max "Marble texture" show about 67ms rendering and baking it into 512x512 image buffer, and about 1500ms to do the same into 4092x4092 image buffer. Multiply this by amount of your non-Octane textures in the Octane scene - and you will get the overall slowdown time of every translation stage (the CPU-stage before Octane even starts to render on GPU).- Minor fixes and improvements...

Changes of the 4.0 version- Implemented the support of "Time" settings of standard BitmapTex when it is connected to any of Octane image textures. "Sync Frames to Particle Age" currently is not supported - this needs the support on Octane rendering core level.- Implemented advanced file sequence settings for Octane image textures and volume object. The "digits number" setting only makes sense when direct file sequence is used (not an IFL file). The "end condition" makes sense only when IFL file is used. The "start frame" and "playback rate" are used in both modes.- Textures preview now respects the timeline position when generated.- Implemented the distribution visualisation for Octane IES lights having target. See the new "IES distribution visualisation" section in Octane settings.- Minor fixes and improvements...